Nina's Blog - Tuesday 30th April 2024

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 16:27

About twenty minutes ago I received a text from the body shop saying that my car is ready and can be collected. But they close at 16:30 and it takes about an hour to get there on the bus.

So I can't pick it up before Thursday because it's May Day tomorrow. Still that should mean that the insurance company will pay me an extra 200 NOK in lieu of giving me a courtesy car.

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 16:42

Caroline is play Cockney Rebel, Sebastian.

There is something about that moves me almost to tears every time I hear it.
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enjoyingitnow · 61-69, M

Sounds fair too me but like always it’s up to them. Insurance companies are in control of everything if you think about it

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Tuesday 30th April 2024, 17:30

Just read something interesting in The Guardian:
[quote]It is an old and not very funny joke: how do you tell if a politician is lying? Their lips are moving.

Members of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament, are intent on tackling this age-old problem by bringing in legislation that bans politicians from telling untruths.

If the law comes into force, Wales would be the first country in the world to make lying by politicians a criminal offence.
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Price has tabled an amendment calling for it to be made illegal for a Senedd member or candidate to wilfully mislead the parliament or the public. A defence would be that the statement could reasonably be inferred to be opinion, belief or future intention rather than a statement of fact.

His amendment was backed by the Liberal Democrats and the Tories. The shadow constitution minister, Darren Millar of the Welsh Conservatives, said: “Untruths and misinformation have been a blight on political discourse in recent years.”
[/quote]
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/30/welsh-senedd-members-consider-criminalising-lying-by-politicians

turbineman40 · 80-89, M

Good that your car is finished but it is not good having to wait for it

Miller · 61-69, M

Hello my dear

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Miller Hello!

Miller · 61-69, M

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ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Cybermale The insurance company will pay for a rental car up to 500 NOK (about 50 USD) per day that the car is in the workshop. If you don't take it they pay me 200 NOK per day. So it's not exactly compensation, just a consequence of it being impossible to pick up the car today and tomorrow being a public holiday.

When I am at home I don't really [i]need[/i] the car most of the time, I'm retired, there are four medium sized supermarkets within fifteen minutes walk, my GP is less than ten minutes walk away, etc., and there is a bus to the big town 22 km away hourly from 05:00 to 23:00, with half hourly buses in the morning and evening rush hour.

Cybermale · 51-55, M

@ninalanyon well looks like life can move forward a bit even if with no car, im sorrybits in shop i just got mine out yesterday and it came to be a160 more than anticpated

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

@Cybermale Mine should be 4 500 NOK (about 450 USD) regardless of what the actual cost is because the insurance is paying. And so they should considering that I pay over 1 000 NOK (100 USD) per month for the insurance!

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